Prayer Before birth - Louis MacNeice

 Prayer Before Birth

1. Justify your understanding of the poem prayer Before Birth.

The poem “Prayer before Birth” is written by Louis MacNeice. The poem is a prayer by a child who is not yet born. He wishes to be saved from those who destroy the finer feeling of man and make him a machine. He is afraid of the blood shed in the world and prays that he may be saved from blood baths. He wants nature as his companion and not human beings without humanity in them. He wishes to be treated like a human being with feeling and intelligence and not like a trial object that can be thrown in any direction. If his humanity is to be destroyed after his birth he would prefer death to life. This is a very moving cry from a child not yet born. He is praying that please give me enough force to fight off those who would try to rob me off my tender nature. He wishes that others don’t use him for their own purposes. He says that if these prayers are not possible, then he would like to be killed before being born. The poem is an open attack on modern civilization which has destroyed noble feelings in man. He is also a protest against the use of machinery which has destroyed all moral and spiritual values. The persons criticized are chiefly the capitals who have reduced man to a machine.

2. Why does the unborn child plea for a strength? 

Unborn child  need an inner strength because he thinks that humans will freeze her humanity. World is being machinery. Human feeling, morals and values are destroyed by it. And humans are being machines.

3. What is the role of natural elements in this poem? 

Unborn child need nature elements for his guidance. In this poet uses nature elements like, water,grass,tree,sky,birds and white light. All this elements show human feelings but human being can't. These all nature elements are need of unborn child.

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